Work supporting and moving mechanism



Jan. 8, 1946. L. M. DAVIS WORK SUPPORTING AND MOVING MECHANISM Filed July 11, 1944 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 Jan. 8, 1946. DAVIS WORK SUPPORTING AND MOVIN G MECHANISM Filed July 11, 1944 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 [aw/2Z4? I Aw y Zziaz ar Jan. 8, 1946. M. DAVIS WORK SUPPORTING AND MOVING MECHA NISM 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed July 11, 1944 Patented Jan. 8,1946

WORK SUPPORTING AND MOVING MECHANISM Lee M. Davis; Springfield, Vt., assignor to Jones & Lamson Machine Company, Springfield, Vt., a

corporation of Vermont Application July 11, 1944, Serial No. 544,418

1 Claim.

There are many instances where machining of circular surfaces, whether internal or external, is desired, but where the 'work piece is of such a shape or size, or both, that its rotation about the tion, the work is given a gyratory motion aboutthe axis of the circular surface While being held against rotation, and the amplitude of gyration is adjustable in accordance with the diameter of the surface which is being acted upon by the tool and, if desired, to cause the tool to be fed relative to the work. The tool itself, which maybe rotary, such as a milling cutter or grinding wheel, may -then be merely rotated about its own axis. and either the work or the tool may be moved in the desired relation to the work axis to produce the desired operation on the work.

A further object of theinvention is to provide improved means for varying the radius of the orbital path of motion of the work in accordance with the diameter of the work surface and the position of the operating face of the tool, and to produce radial feed between the tool and the work. I

Further objects and advantages will appear from a description of an embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a fragmentary side elevation of an internal thread grinding machine embodying the invention and showing the work piece in broken lines.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary top plan view of the right hand portion of parts shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a right hand end elevation of the parts shown in Figures 1 and 2, the ways for the work support being shown in section.

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view on line 4-4 of Figure 3. v

Figures 5 and 6 are fragmentary side and right hand end elevations, respectively, of the work Figure 7 is a detail sectional view on line ll of Figure 2.

Figures 8 and 9 are detail sectional views on lines 8-8 and 9-9, respectively, of Figure 7.

Figure 10 is a detail sectional view on line Ill-l 0 of Figure 9. I

Figure 11 is a central vertical sectional view through the work moving spindle of the upper portion of a machine of a modified construction;

Figures 12 and 13 are detail sectional views on lines |2-|2 and I3l'3, respectively, of Figure 11.

Referring first to the construction shown in Figures 1 to 4 and 7 to 9, inclusive, at i is shown a supporting frame within which is journaled, as shown best in Figure 7, a rotary spindle 2. This spindle is shown as provided at one end with a face plate 3 having as shown best in Figure 8, a dovetail way 4 for the reception of a face member 5 which is slidable laterally of the axis of the spindle. This face member 5 is provided with a journal member In, which by adjustment of the face member 5, is moved from and toward coaxial relation to the spindle 2. The lateral adjustment of the member 5, as shown, is produced by rotation of a screw ll threaded through the member 5 and journaled at one end in a bracket l2 projecting forwardly from the face plate 3. This screw I I may be rotated by the rotation of a beveled gear I 5 keyed to its outer end and held in position thereon as by a nut l6 threaded on its outer end. Any suitable means may be provided for rotating the spindle 2. As shown, for example in Figure 1, this spindle may have secured thereto a gear 20. It may be driven by a pinion 2| fixed to a shaft 22 journaled in the'frame of the machine and rotated by any suitable means.

The journal portion In of the face member 5 has cooperating therewith a journal portion 25 of a work support 25. As herein shown the journal portion In is an external journal, while the journal portion 25 is an internal journal, antifriction bearings 21 being positioned therebetween, and also, as shown, the work support 26 may have an outer part 28 within which is positioned the outer of the two bearings 21 and an inner annular portion 29 within which the inner bearing 2! is positioned, the portions 28 and 29 being secured together as by screws 30. The portion 29 may'have secured thereto a plate 3| overlying the casing part 32 which houses the memhers 3 and 5 and certain of their adjusting mechanisms. This plate 3| prevents the entry of foreign matter into the casing 32 while permitting a gyratory motion of the Plate 3| "relative to the casing, due to the rotation of the journal portion l0 about the axis of the spindle whenthis journal portion is out of axial alinement therewith.

Aguard 33 secured to the casing member 32 and overlying the outer face of the member 3|, but with sufiicient clearance to permit the gyratory motion of the plate 3|, further acts to prevent the entry of foreign material into the casing,

The work support 26, while partaking of the bodily rotation or gyratory motion of thejournal portion Jiflj is ;p'reventedifrom' rotating therewith. Means for accomplishing this is shown best in V Figure 3 and comprises two pairs of links 35, 36

and 31, 38. The links 35 and 36 are pivotedat their inner ends as at 39 and 40' to'the worksupport and at their opposite ends they are pivoted as at M and 42 to a floating ring 43. The links 31 and 38 are pivoted at their lower ends on pivots 45 and 46 secured to the support I, which as shown in Figure 3, may be a work holding carriagemovable on ways 4! andl48. The uppertends of the links 45 and 46 are pivoted to the ring, 43 on the opposite side of the ring from 'the'links :35 and '36-andatpoints spacedi90", from the pivots 4 I rand-42. Apieee 'of :work shown: in brokenlines ratw50 in'iFigure 31may :be clamped. to'the upper face of the work support as by the studs'5I and -.52;=and-the;plates .5-3 and :54. The pairs oflinks hold the work support against rotation with the spindle :but provide .for motion of 1 the 'worktsupin a ggyratory path aboutthe axisof the work spindle an amplitude depending upon the amount-of eccentricit of the'journal pportions Ill-and 25 with respect to theaxis of this spindle. Thus 'the links 31 "-and 38i permit a bodil motion :of the work-support horizontally, Whilethe links oted "at-their rear ends on the fixed pivots 66 :and BI'and'at their forward :endsztothe rim 43,'

while the vertical links '31 and:38 are pivoted .atopposite endsto the floating ring 43' randto the WOlk support. "Theaction, ThOWGVEI, 'is' substantially the same asin the construction shown Elli-Figure 3. r

Means are 1 provided "by which the amount of rotation of the gear 69, but this rotation is at *thesame speedtand direction as that of the spindle, this being due to the equal diameters of the internal gears 8| and 12 and the equal diameters Lof'the. external gears and 69. The bevel gears 65 and I5 "are 'thusrotated as a unit with the face eccentricity of the journal-portions Ill and 25 7 relative to the "spindleqnaylbe adjusted and during the rotation of the spindle, :but" without being ialfec'tedcthereby or partaking of such rotation.

'Towtliiswendm .Figure J7 thepinion I5 is shown iasime sl'iingwithia beveled gear ring 65 journaled ion an enlarged'diameter"portion 66 of'the'spin- 'dies2 andise'cured as by'screws 67 to the hub '68 ofanexterna'l'gear' B9'also journaledon the spin- ;dle portionBS. Journa'led-ion a bushing on the .hub 'pQrt'ion-VBB"of'the gear 69'is a ringIU having plate 3 atthe same speed, so that the gear I5 remains :stationary about its own axis. If now,

the ring III be rotated, as by rotation of a shaft 2 (see'Figure 10) carrying a pinion 86 meshing withthe -,external: --gear portion 1'' I .of1theLring10,

the pinions 15: are 'driven at: a rate vdifferentzfrom the rate zof drive :of the pinions8'3 so=that-ararotation of the gear 65 relative'tto therotationiof the spindle 2 is produced, this "actingftosrotate the bevel gear 65 about its own axis thus'to turn the; screw I I and change the eccentricity :of the journal portions I0 and 25 relative tosthespindle, thus to change the radiusof gyrationrof the'work support As showninvFigu're 10, the-shaft 85riS journaled in the casing portion 82 and carries-: hand wheel-81 at its outer end. disk -88 also carried by the hand wheel may have: cooperating therewith an" index pointer 89'which will serve to show to the operator theposition bf angular adjustment of the shaft '85'and thereb windicate the amountof eccentricity and therefore thefamplitude of gyration of: the work support;

7 In some cases it maybe-desirable thattheradjustment of the eccentricity" be located 'at'isome distance from the-casing-82. Suchsan arrangement is shown in Figures 11to:13 al'ldiWhiCh'fil'SO showsamodified form of planetary gearing'rfor adjustment purposes, Referring to "Figure 211, the Work spindle IilIlis shown:-as:hollow1andcar ries at its forward end the faceplate :IIl I c'arrying a face member I 02- h-aving dovetaile'dviguides I03 and lll lengaginga dovetail :IIfl-5 "ofrtheface plate I III. At'gib'I-III may be*e'mplo'yeii' to take up Wear betweenthese'parts. .Theface plate EI II'I may have 'journaled therein 'a radially extending threaded shaft I98, the threaded iportion en'gaging in a threaded socket I09 in theface member I02, spring pressed plugs I090 (Figure 13) taking up any lost motion inthe 'threads. A beveled pinion III] onrthis'sha'ft I138 inesheswith a'sinii lar pinion III on a shaft II2 arranged coaihalIy with the'spindle andiextending therethrougn' and journaled' therein in "the bearings"'I'I '3 and I F I. On the 1 rear 'end lof' the' shaft i I I 2ibeyond the' end of the spindle I00, the shaft I I 2 has keyed there tothe hub I I5'of.-anexternal-gearllt. Journaled integraltherewith an external gear H and an tinternalr'gear 1.2,:the internal gear 12 at least being1arrangediinitl'ressameiplanewith the gear 69. rMeslzing with .therinternalgear I2 andthe ex- .ternal' gear 7 69Pare pinions I 5 journaled on shafts Q16; .v-projectingifrom a ring TI. 'This'ring 'I'Iis V andsbeing pfirthezsameidiameteras the-internal on this hub is, arings member I:I.-I'- having-i'an internal gear H8 and an-externalgear Ivwpboth inthe same plane with the-gear H6. .An.-exter,-

nal gear I 20 of the-same external rdiameter as the gear H6 is keyed to .thesspindle .100 aniiiin zthe same plane therewithis an internal gearPIIZI-of the same diameter as the intern-alige ar QLIBL A ring member I22 is 'Jou'rnale'd onalbushingllt keyed to the'spindlfe IIl'Il and carries "journale'fc'l thereon two sets 'of-pinions 'I'2'4."an"d'fjI2 The pinions I 24 engage between the' "int'e gear H8 and the externalgear" I f16, *and the iiiions I25 engage between the internal gear'IfI-anil the external gear I20. If now the ring member I I1 be held stationary and the spindle I be rotated, as by driving the gear I30 fixed thereto, rotation of the gear I20 with the spindle rotates the pinions I25 which roll around in contact with the stationary internal gear I2I and cause a rotation of the ring member II2. This, in turn, carrying the gears I24, causes these gears to be rotated around the internal gear I I8 and this causes rotation of the gear H6 at the same rate and direction as the spindle. Thus there is no relative rotation between the shaft I I2 and the spindle I00, so that the bevel gear III is rotated at the same rate as the gear H0 is carried around it, so that the screw shaft I08 is held against rotation. If now the ring Ill be rotated, as through driving engagement with the external gear portion H9, this stationary condition is upset and the shaft H2 is rotated at a difierent rate from the spindle, either faster or slower, with corresponding rotation of the screw shaft III] in one or the other direction to adjust the face member I02 laterally of the spindle, thus to change the radius of orbital motion of the work holder. This rotation of the ring member II1 to adjust the radius of orbital motion may be effected by rotation of a hand wheel I35 carried by a shaft I36 journaled in a, bracket I34 secured to the machine head, this shaft I36 being connected through a pin coupling at I31 with a shaft I38 journaled in the casing member I39. This shaft I38 carries a gear I40 which meshes with a gear I4I journaled on a stub shaft I42 carried by the casing I39, this gear I4I meshing with the external gear I I9. An indicator disk I50 carried b the hub of the hand wheel I35 coop crating with a fixed pointer I I may be employed to indicate to the operator the condition of adjustment of the orbital path radius for the work support.

The face member I02 is provided with the journal portion I60 with which cooperates the journal portion IIEI carried by the work support I62, which is held against rotation with the journal portion I60, as for example, by the link connections shown in Fi ures 1 to 3, or 5 and 6. A thread bearing I65 may be interposed between the journal portion I GI and the outer face of the member I02. The Work support may be provided with a work centering plug I10 arranged coaxial with the journal member I60 for engagement in a hole I1I (Figure 12) in a work piece I12 carried on the work support and having a hole I13 coaxial with the hole I1I in which it may be desired to grind threads as by the thread grinding wheel I14.

From the foregoing description of certain embodiments of this invention, it will be understood that various further changes and modifications might be made without departing from the spirit or scope of this invention.

I claim: v In combination, a rotary spindle, means for rotating said spindle, a face plate secured to one end of said spindle, a member carried by said face plate and movable transverse to the axis of said spindle, a gear fixed to said spindle, a ring journaled to rotate coaxially with said fixed gear, a stationary internal gear of greater diameter than said fixed gear, pinions rotatably carried by said disk and meshing with said internal gear and said fixed gear whereby rotation of said spindle will rotate said ring, a journaled external gear the same diameter as said fixed gear, an internal gear of the same diameter as said stationary internal gear and journaled for rotation relative to said spindle, pinions carried by said disk meshing with said journaled external gear and said journaled internal gear, whereby said journaled external gear rotates with said spindle when said journaled internal gear is stationary, means ac- LEE M. DAVIS. 

